Oblien Workspace vs Smol Machines

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs. Smol Machines runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 15, 2026

Oblien Workspace

Hosted microVM workspaces for AI agents.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Free tier, no credit card
Max session: Not listed

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Smol Machines

Hosted Linux microVMs with their own kernel, for agents and untrusted code.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $100 credit, one time
Max session: Not listed

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What is different

8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

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Oblien Workspace

Smol Machines

vCPU, per hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.03; Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.008; Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage: Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped; Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card; Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Largest sandbox: Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB; Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation: Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM; Smol Machines: MicroVM
Snapshots: Oblien Workspace:; Smol Machines: No
SDKs: Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript; Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Oblien Workspaceoblien.com/pricing

Smol Machinessmolmachines.com/pricingsmolmachines.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.03; Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour: Oblien Workspace: $0.008; Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage: Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped; Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card; Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from: Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go; Smol Machines: Pay as you go
Billing: Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only; Smol Machines: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; Smol Machines: Not listed
Idle stop: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; Smol Machines: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB; Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; Smol Machines: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation: Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM; Smol Machines: MicroVM
GPU: Oblien Workspace: No; Smol Machines: No
Snapshots: Oblien Workspace:; Smol Machines: No
Pause and resume: Oblien Workspace:; Smol Machines:

Developer

SDKs: Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript; Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Integrations: Oblien Workspace: MCP; Smol Machines: Not listed

Trust

License: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
BYOC: Oblien Workspace: Not listed; Smol Machines: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Oblien Workspace

Smol Machines

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.046; Smol Machines: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.092; Smol Machines: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Oblien Workspace: $0.184; Smol Machines: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Oblien Workspace fits when

You use MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.092 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Smol Machines fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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